The Black Hair Salon Isn’t What or Where it Used to Be

*(Via Washington Post) You would certainly expect black and white women to shop at the same stores, luxuriate in the same spas, even frequent the same makeup counters. And more than five decades after Rosa Parks held on to her bus seat, they do.

But there was one beauty barrier that was never breached: hair salons.

All things being equal, women’s hair was not.

Because no one, according to the conventional wisdom, could style a bla...

The debate over the "proper" way for black women to wear their hair is one that I have gotten into more times than I can count. From going to a college where most of the black female population chopped off their hair so as not to feel "oppressed" by "the man" to Chris Rock's widely acclaimed, seemingly pro-natural documentary, I always feel like I am the minority vote in this debate. My natural hair is thick. In addition to being thick it has a very tight, wavy texture that I can only call ...

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